Nail-container and nail-delivering device



A. RLW. TANNER.

NAIL CONTAINER AND NAIL DELIVERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, I920.

Patented Oct. 11, 1921.

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NAIL-CONTAINER AND NAIL-DELIVERING DEVICE.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 10, 1920. Serial No. 387,947.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR REGINALD vVnnewoon TANNER, subject of theKing of Great Britain, residing at Little Sutton, in the county ofChester and Kingdom of England, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Nail-Containers and Nail- Delivering Devices, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved nail container and nail deliveringdevice which is also applicable for screws and small headed shanks.

It is the object of the invention to provide a device which will enablenails to be removed manually in groups of any desired number and toprovide means for a fresh supply of these to take the place of thosewhich have been removed. It is a further object of the invention toprovide an upper holder for nails in mass and a lower holder whichdelivers nails in ordered sequence and to combine these holders in suchmanner that two phases of operation will take place, viz. one phase inwhich the upper holder delivers a limited number of nails to the lowerholder, and a second phase in which this limited number of nails isarranged in ordered sequence within said lower holder. It has been foundnecessary to joggle or agitate the holders for this purpose and if toomany nails are delivered into the lower box at once, choking takesplace. It is a further object of theinvention to provide such mechanicalconnections for the two boxes that an even feed takes place from theupper box to the lower box and nails can be evenly removed from saidlower box.

The invention is more particularly described with reference to theaccompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a side View of one form ofthe device.

Fig. 2 is an end View.

In these drawings, 1 is an upper nail box having a handle 2 and one ormore side slots 3 which allow a plurality of nails to fall through. Thisbox is hinged at 4: to a lower box 5 which is rectangular at the top.The bottom is formed of two inclined sides 6 between which is formed aslot which in Fig. 2 is shown as filled with a nail 7 The slot justcontains the stem of the nail, but the head of the nail cannot passthrough. 8 is a spring device which is attached by the screw 9 and canbe adjusted by the screw 10,

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since it is necessary that this spring should be just strong enough toprevent nails fall- 1ng out and yet not too strong to prevent them frombeing removed readily by hand. The box 5 is provided with side grooves11 engaging in rollers 12 on the standards 13 carried on a base 14;. Thebox 1 is pivotally mounted at 15 on the standard 13.

By reason of this pivotal'mounting of the box 1 filled with nails, anymovement ofv this box, either direct or indirectly about the pivot 15,due to the manual operation of withdrawing a nail, screw or the likepast the spring 8 or other restraining device, will cause a moving orjoggling of the box 1, so that a number of nails fall through the wideslot or slots 8 into the box 5.

It will be noted that as the box 1 moves, so also doesthe box 5 slide ona roller 12 and therefore while nails are being transferred from box 1to box 5, nails are also being allowed to fall Within the slot at thebottom of box 5 to dispose themselves in correct disposition, that is tosay head up ward and in ordered sequence as shown in Fig. 1. The boxesmove eccentrically so that when the upper box is out of the position ofdelivery, the lower box is'being joggled to assemble'the nails inordered sequence. One or a series of these nails can then be grasped byhand and pulled past the spring 8 when they are ready for use. It willbe seen that the box 1 can be operated to deliver suiiicient nails tothe box 5 to enable them to fall within the slot, as if the box 5 isfilled full of nails, it is found that the nails do not readily fallwithin the narrow slot in the bottom thereof.

I declare that what I claim is A nail holder comprising a standard, anupper container pivoted thereon, a lower slotted box connected with theupper box, a spring at the end of said slot, means to allow the lowerbox to slide freely with re spect to said standard during thenail-sorting operation, and a connection between sai upper and lowerboxes.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name this 20 day of May,1920, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR REGINALD WEDGWOOD TANNER.

Witnesses:

WM. PIERCE, J. MOLACHLAN.

